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At thirty-one, Ellen Barrett has already won a Pulitzer prize. Sadly, though, her skill as a journalist far surpasses her ability to sort out her troubled past, so she's less than eager to return to picturesque Petoskey, Michigan, for her beloved father's funeral. When she most needs comfort, her husband is distant and her siblings antagonistic -- and the solace an old sweetheart offers is almost too much to resist. In the end, going home to the shores...

Peggy Stoks' poignant fiction has found a cherished place in the hearts of readers everywhere. In Elena's Song, the third book of Stoks' Abounding Love series, Elena Breen is a singer who's been unfairly exploited. Her voice ravaged, her career crippled too soon by the man who made her a celebrity, Elena fears the future-and seems unable to shake the grip of the past. But God has a plan for everyone, and Jesse Golden might just be the man to usher...

Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age seventeen with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she's asked to write a memoir of her early experiences as the town celebrates its anniversary. Reluctantly at first, she soon uncovers memories and emotions hidden all these years, including the story of her one true love. At the nearby Hotel Ottawa Resort, 23-year-old...